HC Deb 14 June 1994 vol 244 cc549-50W
Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for(a) each district council, (b) each county council, (c) each of the proposed new unitary council areas and (d) for Wales as a whole (i) the total area, (ii) the area of national parks and (iii) the percentage of the area occupied by national parks.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

With regard to the new unitary authority areas, I will write to the hon. Gentleman when the boundaries of the new authorities have been agreed by Parliament and will place a copy of my reply in the Library of the House.

  1. (i) The total area of (a) each district council, (b) each county council and (d) Wales as a whole are published in Table 1.06 of the "Environmental Digest for Wales", No. 8, 1993, copies of which are available in the Library of the House.
  2. (ii) and (iii)
(a) The approximate area of each district council covered by national parks and the percentage of the area covered by the national parks are readily available only in respect of the Brecon Beacons and Pembrokeshire Coast national parks. Details are given in the following table.

District Area covered by national parks (thousand hectares) Percentage of district area covered by national parks
Brecon Beacons:
Brecknock 89.4 50.0
Dinefwr 22.7 23.2
Cynon Valley 5.4 30.4
Merthyr Tydfil 2.5 22.5
Blaenau Gwent 1.9 15.0
Torfaen 0.1 0.8
Monmouth 13.1 15.7
Pembrokeshire Coast:
Preseli Pembrokeshire 41.5 36.0
South Pembrokeshire 16.9 38.7

Source:

Brecon Beacons national park.

Pembrokeshire Coast national park.

(b) For each county council the approximate area covered

by national parks and the percentage of the area

covered by national parks are as follows:
County Area covered by national parks (thousand hectares) Percentage of district area covered by national parks
Dyfed 81.1 14.0
Gwent 15.1 11.0
Gwynedd 217.1 56.2
Mid Glamorgan 7.9 7.8
Powys 89.4 17.6

Source:

Brecon Beacons national park.

Pembrokeshire Coast national park.

Countryside Council for Wales.

(d) For the whole of Wales, national parks cover 409.8 thousand hectares, which is 20 per cent. of the total area of Wales.